> "If you live in a society where theft is applauded and condoned in the courts, and you go steal something, and by some anomaly of the legal system, you get punished for the theft, then, in response to YOUR theft, there is justice but not fairness."
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> I would now disagree. If some anomaly in the legal system allowed one individual to be punished where others were not, then this would not create justice. The punishment of the one individual would be a just act, but the failure of the system to punish others similarly would be unjust.

We don't disagree. I was careful to include "in response to YOUR theft" when indicating how justice was done in your case, even if it wasn't done in other cases.

You're right that you can't have a just society that isn't fair. Since all men are equal, all acts (and by "act" I am taking into account not just the action itself but the motives as well) deserve the same consequence. If different consequences are applied to different people when they commit the same act for the same motives under the same conditions, then no more than one of the cases can have been handled justly.